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Last week, in an unprecedented gesture of atonement, hundreds of Catholics turned out for Llewellyn's funeral procession, and Father Aodh Bennett of the Clonard Monastery near Falls Road held prayer services for the soul of "our brother Samuel." Father Bennett said, however, that he would not reveal the names of the two Catholic thugs who he suspects led the mob in Llewellyn's slaughter. "They'll be punished by their own people," he said, "and when that happens, may God avert his eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN IRELAND: May God Avert His Eyes | 9/1/1975 | See Source »

Just Talk. The year the book opens is the year the Russians have 200 nuclear submarines and the U.S. a President who is devoted to Bach. It is also the year that Lord Clonard, the P.R. man of moneyless title through whose eyes most of the events are seen, notes that London's girlie shows have taken a perverse, sadistic twist. Swarms of young men openly hold hands in the street and neck in Hyde Park, and prostitutes walk naked under their raincoats or furs. A dozen Reading Gaols would not hold all the homosexual offenders or 50 Bridewells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: FitzGibbon's Decline & Fall | 7/18/1960 | See Source »

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